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Sustainability council introduces free store, concert

BY LIS STEWART staff writer

Sustainability efforts on campus this year include a free concert, bicycle repair stations and a store where everything is free, according to Student Sustainability Office intern Blake Thomas.

“I think it’s exciting to have students on campus using their minds and putting their efforts, their energy, to create a more sustainable campus,” Thomas said. “It’s moving forward with new technology and innovation.”

With projects now being implemented by the Blue Goes Green fee, the Sustainability Office is working on being more involved with students to show how their money is used in projects to better the campus, said Sustainability director Sean Damitz.

Students voted in favor of the Blue Goes Green fee two years ago and received some criticism in the election. Thomas said in order to address concerns about the fee, the Sustainability Office sent a survey to students last year and is now using the data as a guide in their office.

“Now that we’ve got a year under our belt and I think we’ve got a more solidified mission, we can kind of interface with

more students to be more visual,” Damitz said.

As part of the effort to show off the sustainability projects, Thomas is organizing a kickoff concert Oct. 5 in the TSC International Lounge. Booths will be set up for each of the projects funded by sustainability grants to explain to students how their money was spent this last year, he said.

The concert starts at 7 p.m. and the bands Desert Noises, Good Blood and Children of the North will play, Thomas said.

The first is from Orem and the latter two are from Logan, he said.

The concert itself is funded entirely by money made from the student move-out sale last spring, Thomas said.

“The end of last school year, Students for Sustainability and the Sustainability Office put out bins in all the dorms and for the last week of school. Anyone moving out could put stuff in that they were going to throw away,” Thomas said.

Once the sustainability staff sorted through the large amount of items, they sold it at the Cache Valley Gardeners Market, Thomas said. However, there was still a large amount of items leftover.

THE BLUE GOES GREEN fee has funded multiple projects in the past year, including several bicycle repair stations around campus. JESSICA FIFE photo

The abundance of move-out sale leftovers led to the creation of a store where students can sort through the piles of clothing, kitchen items, school supplies and storage containers

and take things home for free, according to Crista Sorenson, student director of Students for Sustainability. The free store is currently housed at Youth Discovery, Inc. at 60 W 1000 North behind Walgreens, she

said.

“There’s quite literally a mountain,” Sorenson said.

However, because the storage space is borrowed, the leftover

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Business Week includes service, networking

BY MITCH HENLINE staff writer

BUSINESS WEEK IS Sept. 10-14. Activities include a concert, service project and networking dinner. File photo

Monday, Sept. 10 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM Student Involvement Expo, Location TBD 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: Dogs with the Dean, outside Business Building Tuesday, Sept. 11 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM: Huntsman Cancer Institute Service Project,

A recycled percussion concert and a university-wide service project are on the schedule for The Jon M. Huntsman School of Business’s annual Business Week, Sept. 10-14.

Other activities during the week include an ugly tie dance on the Quad, the first common hour speaker and an invitation-only networking dinner.

Business Senator Jeff Parker said the dinner is key event aiming to helping student make connections that will be valuable to them in the future.

“Graduates and undergraduate students can sit down with business leaders and business professionals and be able to meet them and get to know them one on one and find out what it takes to become a part of their organizations,” Parker said.

Kinsey Eborn, a member of the Business Council, said the event she’s most looking forward to is the percussion concert.

“It’s one of the biggest concerts we have on campus throughout the entire year,” she said.

Parker said the week-long celebration has taken a large leap in regards to

activities and promotion this year.

“Only in the past couple of years has it grown to be this large of an endeavor for the college to showcase what we have to offer, said Parker. “Over the past three years it’s really grown substantially.”

Parker said the college has specific goals they want to meet this year.

“We want to showcase the business school to the university and everything it has to offer,” he said. “We’re especially interested in attracting undeclared majors as well as people interested in a dual major in business.”

He said another purpose of the week is to create unity amongst business students that will help them get more involved in their education.

“They say half of education happens in the classroom, the other half is everything else you do,” Parker said.

“The business school has lots of incredible opportunities for students and our goal is to really get students involved in some of those extracurricular activities.”

Students will be able to check out different clubs and organizations within the business school that they can get involved in and more fully enjoy their time at the college, Parker said.

“We’re having a student involvement expo on Monday where all the clubs and different organizations in the college can actively recruit people,” Parker said. “Our hope is that uninvolved students can kind of find their niche and what they would enjoy participating in.”

One of the biggest events of the week will be focused on helping others out. There will be a service project on Tuesday to benefit the Huntsman Cancer Institute.

“They’ve requested some specific items from us and we’re really excited to be able to donate those to them,” Parker said. “That’s in part to show our appreciation to Jon M. Huntsman for his donation and involvement in our school.”

Eborn said whether students are business majors or in another field, there are events for everybody to enjoy.

“It’s a great opportunity for freshmen to see what the business college is really all about as well as other students to get a feel for what the business college is, what we stand for, and how we like to help out not only USU, but everybody else.”

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Business Week Calendar

Business Building Lobby, Library, TSC, and LDS Institute.

6:00 PM: Graduate Student Networking Dinner, (By Invitation Only)

6:30 PM: Entrepreneurship Club Kickoff Meeting, Engineering Building room 103

8:30 PM – 11:00 PM: Ugly Tie Dance, Location TBD Wednesday, Sept. 12 10:00 AM: Donuts, Outside of Business Building 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM Common Hour Speaker: Spencer West, TSC Ballroom 5:00 PM: Institute of

Management Accountants (IMA) Opening Social, Business Building Lobby 6:00 PM: Finance and Economics Club Opening Social, Business Building room 214 Thursday, Sept. 13 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM: Professional Photographs, Business School Lobby

6:00 PM: Awards Banquet (By Invitation Only) Friday, Sept. 10 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM: Dean’s Address and Welcome to Students, Business Building Auditorium RM 215 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM: Recycled

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SARE recieves $4.15 million for research Briefs

BY LEANN FOX staff writer Utah State University’s Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Center (SARE) has received $4.15 million to assist in the research done by farmers and ranchers in 13 states, including Utah.

The money will be dispersed to certain farmers and ranchers for individual research projects, said Phil Rasmussen, director of Western SARE. In the past, research has included renewable energy, pest and weed management, pastured livestock and rotational grazing, nutrient management and agroforestry.

Rasmussen said proposals will be reviewed and dispersion decisions will be decided later in the year by a board of directors comprised of representatives from universities, government, agribusiness and nonprofit organizations.

“Since 1988, the SARE grants and education program has advanced agricultural innovation that promotes profitability, stewardship of the land, air and water, and quality of life for farmers,

ranchers and their communities,” Rasmussen said.

The national four-region SARE organization is a decentralized competitive grants and education program. Each region is guided by a volunteer administrative council that writes grants and sets regional priorities to review project proposals. Technical reviewers, also volunteers, help by lending their professional and practical experience to evaluate project proposals, according to the Western SARE website.

64 percent of producers said their SARE project helped them achieve higher sales, according to the website.

“For a small office we have a tremendous impact, handling millions of dollars to benefit the agricultural community in the entire Western region, from Guam to Last Chance, Colo.,” said Rasmussen.

“The program covers roughly half the landmass of the U.S. in climates ranging from tropical to arctic.”

From the time the SARE program was founded, it has funded more than 5,000 projects throughout its regions, including research

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and education grants, professional development grants and producer grants.

Rasmussen has administered over the region for the last 16 years. He manages SARE research programs in all 13 Western States, and has traveled to the U.S. territory of Guam and the Pacific Island protectorates to manage and direct research programs and to instruct scientists and agricultural professions concerning sustainable agriculture systems.

In the time he’s worked with the university, USU has received more than $70 million including the

$4.15 million awarded this summer.

This year’s grant will support farmers and ranchers from California to sheep herders in Colorado, according to Bob Newman, Deputy Western SARE Coordinator.

“This is more than just a grant — we fund competitive projects,” he said.

In addition to the benefits of bringing millions of dollars through the university, Teryl Roper, head of USU’s Department of Plants, Soils and Climate, said students involved in studying sustainable agriculture have a more expansive view of different farming processes.

“USU undergraduate and graduate students involved in studying sustainable agriculture gain a broader perspective of the country’s agricultural landscape,” he said.

“Their education at Utah State is truly multidimensional thanks to their exposure to and involvement with the wide diversity of production systems found in these grants.”

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Satellite network marks milestone

July 23 marked the 40th year that NASA’s LANDSAT satellites have circled the globe and tracked changes in the Earth’s surface. Phil Rasmussen, director of the Western Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education (SARE) Center and professor at Utah State University, was one of only three researchers invited to speak at a special Congressional briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., to celebrate LANDSAT’s 40th anniversary.

Rasmussen is no stranger to melding earth-orbiting satellites with agriculture. While he was an Air Force officer trainee, Rasmussen witnessed the launch of LANDSAT-1 on July 23, 1972, from Launch Complex 2W at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. His research and Extension career, which spans the lives of LANDSATS #1 through 7, includes projects as varied as predicting wheat yields in the for– leannfox@aggiemail.usu.edu mer Soviet Union and others that helped farmers in the United States increase profits by prescribing precise applications of nitrogen in order to maximize protein in wheat.

In addition, Rasmussen was named

by NASA as the first Geospatial Extension Specialist in the nation — a tribute to his knowledge and skill in using Earth-observing satellites to benefit the nation’s farms and ranches.

Rasmussen’s invited briefing before Congress focused on LANDSAT’s effects on agriculture.

“Data from the LANDSAT satellite series have had a profound effect on sustainable food production across the globe,” Rasmussen said at the Congressional briefing.

“This, in turn, has allowed farmers, ranchers and land managers to select optimal management alternatives versus non-sustainable techniques that rob the planet of precious resources.”

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THE SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND RESEARCH CENTER has funded more than 5000 projects for farmers and ranchers. DELAYNE LOCKE photo

Department head addresses College Democrats

BY TMERA BRADLEY news senior writer

The USU College Democrats held their opening social on Wednesday, where Dr. Michael Lyons of the Political Science department told students “the election, to a degree, rests in the hands of young voters.”

Lyons gave a presentation on the upcoming presidential election, beginning with reasons incumbent President Barack Obama could lose, the first being due to the young voter drop off.

Lyons said the upcoming election’s Democrat to Republican split is “just about as favorable as ever.”

He said 68 percent of young voters age 18 to age 29 voted in favor of Obama during the last election. This year, 60 percent of young adults are registered voters, and of them 56 percent say they definitely will vote, he said.

Another reason Obama could lose the vote include is because Americans associate the rise in price with the Obama administration, but it’s “preposterous” to blame the current president, Lyons said.

The heath care act is another consideration, Lyons said.

“Republicans have misled the American people brilliantly and created a pretty high level of opposition to it,” Lyons said, speaking of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Aside from these factors, Lyon said one stands out among all the rest.

“The economy is the major problem,” Lyons said.

Despite these reasons, Lyons said Obama will be a likely winner. He said Obama has no vulnerability on national security and he has the voter’s preference for divided party control. Lyons said another reason Obama may win is because presidential incumbents almost always win. He has the Latino vote, Lyons said, which proved very important for him in 2008.

“I think Obama is going to win,” Lyons said.

Travis Johnson, vice president of the USU College Democrats and a junior majoring in law and constitutional studies, said the group is mainly to get students more interested in politics.

“We’re not super concerned with your political affiliation,” Johnson said. He said

COLLEGE DEMOCRATS VICE PRESIDENT Travis Johnson addresses the group at their opening social on Wednesday night. JESSICA FIFE photo

it’s far easier to be a visible Republican in Utah because Republican ideas are passed down.

“We think that there are a number of Democrats out there or people who maybe align more with the democratic ideals than Republican but don’t really know what those are yet and they don’t know that there’s a place for them,” Johnson said.

He said it is not really black and white ground, and there are a lot of people in the middle.

“We want to give them the chance to come out and maybe join up,” Johnson said.

Johnson said election years present a number of different ways students can get involved, by passing out literature, doing phone banks and calling potential voters.

“If you can identify a campaign you want to help out on, campaigns are always looking for interns and volunteers,” Johnson said. “If you’re not sure that you’re ready to be that committed you can just come out to events, where you can register to vote.”

Social media is a great way to be active, Johnson said. He said to read non-biased news sources and to follow candidates and campaigns on Twitter and Facebook.

Ryan Braeger, a second-year graduate student in the history program, is working on the Scott Howell for U.S. Senate campaign.

Braeger said students can earn academic credit for service hours and it is a great way to build a résumé.

Students can contact Carol McNamara for more information on service opportunities. The USU College Democrats will be holding meetings two to three times a week throughout the semester, as well as hosting other events and service projects.

Booths will be set up in front of the Taggart Student Center Sept. 10-14 where students can register to vote. There will be a debate and opportunity to meet candidates Ed Redd and Doug Thompson Sept. 19 at 7 p.m in the Eccles Conference Center.

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Graduate students are welcome to attend the National Science Foundation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) workshop on Sept. 7. The three-hour workshop, which is hosted by the proposal development division in the Office of Research and Graduate Studies, will be held at 9 a.m. in the Eccles Conference Center room 201/203.

“The NSF IGERT program is a limited submission opportunity,” said Jerilyn Hansen, manager of proposal development. “As an institution, USU is allowed to submit only one application per competition round.”

This workshop will provide participants who are considering submitting an application to the NSF IGERT program with knowledge that has the potential to increase their competitiveness. Rita Teutonico, director of research development and former NSF senior advisor for integrative activities, will discuss the goals and priorities of the IGERT program, and Jeff Broadbent, associate vice president for research and associate dean, will describe USU’s internal selection process for IGERT submissions.

Several current IGERT awardees from other institutions, including Karen McDonald (University of California-Davis), Nilsa A. BosquePerez (University of Idaho), and Willem Vermaas (Arizona State University), will be on hand to share their success stories. Also, time will be provided for team discussions of potential IGERT topics and brainstorming sessions between participants and the guest speakers.

Those interested in attending the workshop are asked to RSVP. For more information and to complete the RSVP form, visit http://research.usu. edu/opd/htm/usu-workshops/nsfigert-workshop and generous.

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Meditation group brings religions together

BY APRIL ASHLAND staff writer The Amrita Sangha for Integral Spirituality is a meditation group that meets every Wednesday evening, led by Associate Professor of English Michael Sowder. The Amrita Sangha has become Sowder's core focus since he founded it last November.

"The Cache Valley Sangha group is more focused on Buddhism, and in this group we try to draw on the world's different traditions," he said.

In the main room where the meditators meet, against one wall is an altar. It's a wooden table about four feet tall with scarves draped across the length. At the front of the altar are five candles, each of a different shape and size, and behind which are framed pictures.

Within each frame sits a deity, or teacher, of various faiths. There is the Dalai Lama with a Catholic Priest; a picture of Jesus Christ sits next to Buddha. Also upon the altar is a statue of Hindu God Shiva, the destroyer.

"We have an eclectic, universal approach to meditation and spirituality. No one has to be a buddhist to meditate," Sowder said.

While an ascribed religion may not play a key role in Sowder's view of meditation, he, along with many of the other members, have had histories with other religions before beginning to meditate.

"I was raised Catholic,” he said.

“I had 12 years of Catholic education and I began meditation 35 years ago in a yoga studio for ten years and then I migrated to a Buddhist tradition, but now I'm back in a kind of yoga meditation.”

Meditation takes some practice to get down, but Sangha group member who goes by the spiritual name Mirabai has been practicing meditation for 25 years in the United States as well as Japan.

"When I began, I thought, ‘This is weird,’" she said. "But I've given years to degrees, so I thought I could give four years to this."

Mirabai did just that, and

spent longer time with the practice. When she was pregnant with her second child she moved to Japan to teach English, despite her misgivings, and there said she saw the connections between all things.

"There was another woman about the same months along as I was who lived just across from me," she said. "And we couldn't communicate, but we both practiced the same form of meditation."

There are many forms of meditation but at its core, meditation has been practiced for about 5,000 years and has many benefits, both spiritual and physical, Sowder said.

"All the things meditators have been touting as benefits

for centuries are now starting to be proven by science," he said.

"Meditation is transformative of your physical health and has mental benefits. Many scientists say they have breakthroughs when meditating."

Sowder said meditation is supposed to reduce blood pressure, stress and tension, is good for your circulatory system, oxygenates your body and is good for your posture. It improves concentration, willpower and focus, he said.

"Those who meditate report greater feelings of well being, you're just more joyful," he said.

Bernadene Ryan, a masters student in folklore, said she believes this meditation group along with the three others offered at differ-

ent times in the week is a valuable resource in a university town.

“It’s important to be able to slow down, calm down,and understand where feelings are coming from,” she said. “It’s important for students, who become so stressed, to be able to let go, to not be attached, to realize that I am not a stressed person, I am a person who has stress.”

When the Sangha group meets each week, the members greet new and returning guests with a smile and a greeting. The typical meeting begins with gathering in the main room for announcements, singing and sometimes chanting, and a focusing. Next, the leader for the evening will have a dharma, or talk about

some spiritual philosophy before the group moves into a 20 to 30 minute silent or guided meditation.

"Focus on your breath, or on your mantra," Mirabai said to the group.

Around the room, men and women of varying ages and ethnicities sit with their hands on their knees or in their laps, with their eyes closed or open and heads bowed or faced toward the heavens. The lights are dimmed, and a gong sounds three times, as breathing deepens and the room goes quiet.

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DURING A MEETING OF THE AMRITA sangha, members clear their minds and control their breathing to experience the benefits of meditation. MICKELLE YATES photo

Students dish on their dating techniques

BY CALE PATTERSON staff writer

Many students at USU are at a time in their lives where they are still single.

Because of this, dating and it’s intricacies play a large part in the lives of many Aggies. Dating techniques are employed by both sexes involved in the love scene, and men and female students have a lot of opinions on the topic.

Many men on campus find themselves confused about what signals a girl is trying to send them, and often women are frustrated about men not understanding those signals. Social media, body language, texting and verbal communication are some of the various ways to send signals to men.

Bailey Howard, a freshman majoring in psychology, said she uses post-date texting to let a guy know she’s interested.

“After I go on a date with someone I wait until I think they are home, and if I’m interested, I text them to let them know I had a good time,” she said.

“I try to avoid texts in dating just because it’s so ambiguous and you miss out on the communication and signals that happen face-to-face,” said Michael Dressman, a junior majoring in psychology. “If I do get the after-date text, chances are I’ll ask her out again. But if I liked the girl and didn’t get the text, I would probably still ask her out again.”

Howard said she uses body language.

“If we’re driving and I want to hold his hand I’ll pretend to see something out the window and casually touch their hand as I’m pointing,” she said.

Lauren Goettsche, a junior majoring in FCHD, uses another approach.

“If I am interested in a guy and we have hung out a few times or gone on a

few dates, I will crack a joke about making out or something,” Goettsche said.

“I’ll say something like, ‘Kyle, when was the last time we made out?’ just to put the idea in their head. That way, when the time comes for them to kiss me, it’s not the first time it’s crossed their mind — they’ve been thinking about it all night.”

“It was already going through my mind,” said junior majoring in business Joe Fitch of this method.

“If I see a guy and think he’s cute, I’ll add him on Facebook and message him,” said Lindsay Draper, an undeclared sophomore.

“I love to talk on the phone and I’ll call them if I’m interested,” said Briana Elwell, a sophomore majoring in early childhood education. “I also ask them a lot more questions.”

“I love it when they ask questions,” Dressman said. “I hate coming off a date and feeling like, okay, I know who you are, but you don’t know me. I like it when a girl is interested enough that the conversation goes both ways.”

“A word to a guy means a lot more than it does to a girl,” said John Penrod, a senior majoring in sociology. “I think guys need to work on body language, but girls need to work on verbal communication. The last girl that I really liked didn’t play games and we communicated effectively. It was a good give-take relationship. It was balanced.”

Other girls are in favor of being themselves.

“You’ve got to be worse at being something you’re not than being something you are,” said graduate student majoring in mathematics Leah Wilson. “I think girls are so concerned about how they’re being perceived on a date that they miss the boat on getting to know the person

who asked them out, which is the whole purpose of the date.”

Lindsay Ferrin, a junior majoring in English literature, said she uses a practice related to this.

“I don’t like getting too cute for boys,” she said. “I want to look nice of course, but I just want to be chill. Then when you do get dressed up its like, ‘Wow, You look really nice.’ It is also kind of a way to filter out the guys who are a little more superficial.”

Nearly all of the boys interviewed said “just being yourself ” is a great way to go.

“I think that if girls just acted like

themselves right from the first date that people would be able to find out much faster who the other person really is,” said Austin Rayfield, a senior majoring in finance. “There would be a lot less disappointment in dating. It would make dating more fun and enjoyable because you wouldn’t be worrying and second guessing about what they’re thinking.

You’d be able to just have fun and enjoy each other’s company.”

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‘Celebrate America’ brings audience back to the ‘40s

“In the Miller Mood-USO Style,� a Celebrate America show, is a dinner-theater production set in the 1940s at Clark Field, the largest overseas military base. The era is in the throes of World War II. Several big bands, including Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman were said to have raised morale with entertainment and relaxation.

The show includes a buffet dinner, a Broadway-style show and big band dancing.

Held in the Evan Stevenson Ballroom, the show will continue from Sept. 6-8 at 7 p.m.

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shallow as thoughts shift from a focus on breathing to whatever is happening inside the mind.

"We follow breath because it happens in the moment," Sowder said.

"Our mind is a lake with ripples, the past, present and future all there. We recognize those thoughts and go back to our breath, because we want to be in the present."

At the appointed time, the bell tolls again and the group rejoins their minds for a communal sharing time.

Sangha literally means “a spiritual community,” and it is in this spirit of community and connection that the group meets each week, to become connected and grounded. Ryan said the group is a way for her to reconnect to the world.

"I meditate on my own, but when you're not part of the mainstream religious groups of society then you can feel like an outsider," she said. "You need support. I'm not sure I would have lasted this long here if I didn't have the connection to the community through this Sangha group."

Ryan began her Utah

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MICKELLE YATES photo. for the smaller, closer comSangha experience in munity. spring 2010 when she “I like it because it’s a moved to Logan from spiritual, non-judgemental, Canada for school and non-lecturing group, and first was involved with I feel accepted here,” she the Cache Valley Sangha, said. which meets on Monday – april.ashland@aggiemail. nights. She transferred to usu.edu the Amrita Sangha group

‘Room’ offers a terrifying look at a kidnapped life Alexandria Wilkinson

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“Room” Grade: A-

Book

Review “Room” was never supposed to be a psychological thriller. A loss of innocence story, maybe. A story about a mother-son bond, probably. A heartbreaking kidnapping account, definitely.

Whatever author Emma Donoghue’s intentions were, she left me and many other avid readers stuck in the pages of her story, minds racing as twisted plots unfolded by the chapter.

“Room” is the story of Jack and Ma, a mother and son stuck in a single room for five years, with only “Old Nick” to come in and hand them

food once a week. Jack has never known anything outside the room.

It’s where Ma gave birth to him, and as far as he’s concerned anything outside the room is outer space. In a unique and compelling twist, the entire story is told from 5-year-old Jack’s perspective. The way that Donoghue is able to imitate the find a innocent, young child is both incredible and haunting.

To Jack, everything is personified. Not knowing how to teach her son basic concepts without tools, everything from toilet paper tubes to egg shells are made into a game.

To Jack, everything is alive, because it’s all he knows. For Jack, the room is full of adventure. To Ma, it’s a suffocating hole of death where she counts the days until her rescue.

The mother- son bond in this book is unexplainable. For Ma, Jack is the only thing she stays alive for. As her body falls apart

EMMA DONOGHUE’S BOOK, “ROOM” is a fictional book about a mother and her son, who were both kidnapped and kept in an 11-by-11 foot room.

from lack of nutrition, constant rape and the unclean environment of the 11-by-11 foot room, she finds herself clinging to the young boy, who doesn’t have the ability to provide any emotional support.

When, through a dramatic plot change, the Ma and Jack are forced outside of the room, their bond is tested. They are pushed apart both emotionally and physically. The latter half of the book, which accounts this, left me with chills. As good as the storytelling was, I’m a weakling and had a hard time with some graphic material.

This is not a book for the young or the faint of heart.

There’s always a debate in my mind whether fairly explicit fiction titles such as “Room” should be as open as they are. I should be clear — the book was absolutely addictive and wonderfully written — but the ideas in it were disturbing and twisted. I understand tragedy like kidnapping and rape happen on a daily basis, but it’s a little harder for me to swallow if I know it’s not a true story being told. With fiction like this, it’s easy to make serious events seem like just stories.

Despite my apprehensions in this area, I think Donoghue research comes out clearly in her writing. I don’t think she could have written in the wide range of emotions she did without knowing her subject matter through and through.

Just a warning, when you pick this up make sure you have a few hours. You won’t put it down. This comes from a girl who hates horror stories, thrillers and anything that makes her stomach turn. “Room” did all of the above, but in a good way. I can easily say it’s one of the best books I’ve read this year, maybe the best. It was an excellent book to end the summer with.

– alexandria.evensen@ aggiemail.usu.edu

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Many college students have a tight budget and try to spend their money on necessities. But, often times, these students have specific items they’re willing to spend more money on – even if it requires them to solely eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

There are items all college students need including food, water, shelter and clothing. Following the basic necessities, students pay for tuition, textbooks, school supplies, a car. However, sometimes students choose to cut back on some of the necessities in order to splurge on something they want, but don’t need.

"You really don’t need more than the bare essentials, but that other stuff sure makes life alot easier,” Cade Robinson, a junior majoring in international business and Spanish, said. “Plus, especially in our day in age, without more than the bare essentials it would be hard to be successful.”

So, not only do the simple joys of life hang in the balance of wants and needs, but also possibly the chance for a successful life, Robinson said.

“Where the crap would we be with no computer or cell phone, for dating or working a successful job,” Robinson said. “I think that’s actually a big part of college; you’re growing up, you’re maturing, you’ve got to learn the difference between a want and a need.”

“Once you find that balance, you can be most successful and happy, like finding the balance between work and study and a social life. You’re growing up and enjoying life and your experience, you have to get your balance — equilibrium as it were. A state of zen,” Robinson said.

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“These are the things that, at least for me, help me relax and feel not so stressed out,” Robinson said. “I can get that break and get ready for the next thing I have to do. You have to have those things that make you happy.”

Though an ice cream sundae may taste just as good without it, having the whipped cream and cherry on the top can make it so much better.

This is what having wants as well as needs does for students during their collegiate career — it adds the touch to make things all the better.

For Robinson, those kind of things include: Happy hour drinks — especially Dr. Pepper — and Scotsman dogs at the Quikstop, buying cheap, fun apps and songs on iTunes, Otter Pops, $5 movies at Walmart, shirts from Deseret Industries and 7-Eleven slurpees and donuts.

For many students it’s tough to make it through a week full of exams, research papers and work at a part-time job without a little pick-me-up. This is where college splurging starts.

For every student those distractions are different.

Some students just want food, any and all kinds of food. Some go crazy on tickets to different events — concerts, conventions, movies. And yet others have wants that may be fairly unique to them.

“I splurge on shooting stuff: shotgun shells, clay

pigeons and the like,” Gould said. “It’s something where, if I had a crappy week, I can go out and shoot. It’s a super good stress relief. There’s just something very satisfying about blowing things to smithereens.”

However, many college students share similar splurges, especially when it comes to food in it’s most popular form to students — snacks.

“Nutella is just a really easy snack for any time,” April Reynolds said. “Plus, it’s chocolate and who doesn’t like chocolate?”

Reynolds, a junior majoring in elementary education said she loves the convenience of Nutella — because she can eat it from a spoon or spread it on toast. Now they have it ‘on-the-go’ so she can have it as a quick snack between classes, she said.

“I definitely feel less guilty about splurging when I know I’ve been working hard,” Reynolds said. “I almost feel like I deserve to reward myself a little. And when I’ve had a bad week I like to compensate by having an extra treat to look forward to.”

For many students, this is exactly what their splurges are for — as a bit of compensation for the work of a poor, hardworking college student. Students need their outlets, the splurges, for things to relax a little bit.

– mandy.m.morgan@aggiemail.usu.edu

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Welcome back, Aggies. We are kicking another great year ASUSU off here at Utah State View University. What more could we ask for? We have it all: Football, fun activities and people to meet, just to name a few.

Isn’t it good to be back?

I spent this past summer here in Logan and I would like to make a recommendation to you. If you haven’t taken classes during the summer months, do it. You will fall even more in love with USU. I mention this because as I stayed here these past few months, that’s exactly what happened. I realized, to a greater extent, how fortunate we are to be students here at this institution. We have administrators that genuinely care for us. We have fantastic professors that provide a great education.

Do I even need to mention the great extracurricular activities in which we get to participate?

In my own opinion, the greatest thing we have as USU students is opportunity — more specifically, the opportunity to try new things.

Unfortunately, many of us do not take advantage of this opportunity. I don’t know why we don’t try new and different things more often. It’s a great way to learn more about yourself, meet new people, and find new passions.

Now, I wouldn’t dare blame anyone for not trying something new. We all have encountered fear, fatigue, or just plain indecisiveness when we have a chance to do something we haven’t done before. I think that with the right support, we can get over these obstacles. We can get over anything that faces us.

At the start of this new school year, I want to encourage you to try something new. Trying something new will be a personal and conscious decision for you. These new things will be wide and varied. Maybe you haven’t taken the curling class yet. It’s possible that you have always wanted to ask that special someone out. How about getting involved with the student government, clubs or the Service Center? I’m not sure what you haven’t done yet, but if you haven’t done it you should seriously consider it.

As you start to try new things you, as an individual, will grow and stretch. That’s why you are here, right? Not just to get a piece of paper that states that you went to four years of school — because that would be a waste. You came to Utah State University to gain knowledge on how to be a better person and a contributor to society. I will tell you right now that you cannot do this, with full efficacy, by doing the same things you have always done and by doing nothing else besides attending class.

If you are having trouble finding something new to do or you just need a little encouragement, come stop by my office or the office of any of the ASUSU Officers. They are located on the third floor of the TSC. We will be more than happy to help you out in any way that we possibly can. After all, that is our job. That is the reason you elected us in the first place.

Christian Thrapp is the 2012-13 ASUSU president.

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Harvard cheating ring prompts criticism Naomi Riley

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The news that 125 students at Harvard are under investigation for cheating has caused a reaction often heard when the mighty fall.

How could they have been so stupid?

And in an Introduction to Congress course, no less. How could such a large number of students — half the class — submit almost identical answers on the takehome final exam and assume they wouldn’t be caught?

Like politicians who send out naughty pictures of themselves or sports stars who employ a string of prostitutes, it seemed unbelievable that these cream-ofthe-crop young people didn’t see this coming.

But just like politicians, Harvard students (and I say this as an alumna of that venerable institution) think they are the smartest people in the room.

(Sometimes they are.)

Maybe they thought they had outsmarted their professor and the graduate teaching fellows grading the exams.

Some of those involved defended themselves, claim -

ing that the professor allowed them to share class notes, so it was no surprise that their answers on an openbook exam were the same. Students also complained that the exams were confusing as were the standards set by the professor regarding collaboration.

The Administrative Board, the school’s disciplinary organization, is deciding what consequences these students will face. Expulsion would seem an obvious answer, but it’s not.

Jay Harris, the undergraduate dean, has said the school will be using the incident as an occasion for talking to students about academic integrity. Part of the problem, he indicated, was how students use the Internet. There are “clearly shifting attitudes toward the whole idea of intellectual property and what’s involved in moving bits and pixels around,” he said. “This is not a unique student problem. It’s certainly not a Harvard problem. It’s a national and international problem.”

Harris even suggested that Harvard students might not understand what is wrong with their actions. “We always stress academic integrity with our students,” he said. “It’s very hard to explain to someone that this raises ethical concerns and that it’s not OK.” Really? How

hard is it?

Before the Harvard administration appoints a committee and issues a report and offers mandatory academicintegrity training for incoming students, may I make one suggestion?

If 2 percent of your entire undergraduate student body is caught cheating in one class, maybe it’s time to reexamine what goes on in the admissions office.

It’s not that admissions officers should be expected to know in advance who will cheat and who won’t.

Teresa Fishman of the International Institute for Academic Integrity at Clemson University in South Carolina told the Associated Press that between a quarter and a third of college students admit to cheating on tests. So maybe Harvard has a better record than most. But admissions officers really have no idea. That’s the point.

For all the time that students spend on volunteer service projects in the rain forest, for all the essays they submit describing their inner struggles and decisions always to put others first, for all the sugary recommendations they send in from their teachers, their clergy and their internship supervisors, hundreds of cheaters are still let in by the admissions officers.

In fact, people who

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Hard-line voters need to shed ‘information cocoon’ Nat'l View A look at what others are saying

In 2002, New York University political scientist Russell Hardin wrote a brilliant essay called “The Crippled Epistemology of Extremism.” Hardin contended that many extremists, including terrorists, are not stupid, insane or badly educated.

The real problem is that their information comes from a sharply limited set of sources, all of which are supportive of their extremist beliefs. Many extremists listen only to one another. They live in self-reinforcing information cocoons.

Their “crippled epistemology” can lead to utterly baseless, but firmly held, convictions (and sometimes even violence).

Most Democrats and most Republicans are not extremists. But Hardin’s argument offers lessons about 21stcentury political campaigns in the United States — and about some of the most serious difficulties in contemporary governance.

How do you know what you know? You undoubtedly have

firsthand knowledge about many things, including your job, your family and your possessions. But how do you know whether George Washington or James Madison really lived, whether matter consists of atoms, whether Bob Dylan wrote “Like a Rolling Stone,” whether Mars and Venus exist, or whether Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the moon?

With respect to innumerable issues, including political ones, most of what we know is what we learn from other people.

By itself, that is inevitable and nothing to lament.

But here is the problem.

When we listen mostly to people who already agree with us, our pre-existing convictions get fortified, and we start to think that those who disagree with us are evil, dumb or duped. Is it any wonder that our politics are highly polarized, so much so that it sometimes seems as if Democrats and Republicans don’t merely disagree but live in unfathomably different universes?

A few years ago, I participated in some experiments designed to shed light on how people’s political beliefs are formed. My co-authors and I assembled a number of people in Colorado into all-liberal

groups and all-conservative groups. We asked the groups to discuss three issues: climate change, affirmative action and civil unions for same-sex couples.

We requested group members to state their opinions at three stages. The first occurred before they started to talk, when we recorded their views privately and anonymously. In the second stage, we asked them to discuss the issues with one another and then to reach a kind of group “verdict.” In the final stage, we asked people to record their views, after discussion, privately and anonymously.

Our findings were simple.

On all three issues, both liberal and conservative groups became more unified and more extreme after talking to one another. Not only in their public verdicts but also in their private, anonymous statements of views. Discussions with one another made conservatives more skeptical of climate change and more hostile to affirmative action and same-sex unions — while liberals showed exactly the opposite pattern.

It is not surprising that before discussions began, the liberal groups were, on all three issues, somewhat more

liberal than the conservative groups. What is more striking, and more revealing about our current problems, is that after liberals spoke only with liberals, and conservatives only with conservatives, the divisions between the two groups grew dramatically.

Why do groups polarize in this way? One reason involves people’s concern for their reputations. If you find yourself in a group of people who hate affirmative action, you might be reluctant to say that you like affirmative action, and your agreement with the group in a public setting might affect what you say privately.

The more interesting reason involves the exchange of information. In conservative groups, for example, people tend to offer a number of arguments against affirmative action, and very few in favor of it. Group members learn from what they hear. Having heard the set of arguments in their group, people become more confident, more unified and more extreme.

Can anything be done to address this problem? The most obvious answer is to break out of information cocoons. That is a central goal of the American constitutional system, which

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CHEAT: SAT scores should be the only rule oFrom page 8 write essays about what wonderful people they are aren’t always the most wonderful people.

As Andrew Ferguson described university admissions in his 2011 book, “Crazy U”: “At its most intense, the admissions process didn’t force kids to be Lisa Simpson; it turned them into Eddie Haskell (‘You look lovely in that new dress, Ms. Admissions Counselor.’)

It guaranteed that teenagers would pursue life with a single ulterior motive, while pretending they weren’t.”

In addition, the college process may also be encouraging deceit.

Given all the parents, guidance counselors and private consultants “helping” students with their essays, is it any wonder students think

that a little “collaboration” with their friends on a final exam isn’t a problem?

Maybe now that this cheating scandal has occurred, we can agree that the admissions process in its current form is a waste of time and money. Admit students based on their SAT scores. If you want to see how well they string sentences together, look at the writing portion of the SAT. (It’s pretty hard to cheat on the SATs, last year’s scandal on New York’s Long Island notwithstanding.) If your college cares about the racial, ethnic or socioeconomic mix of your incoming freshman class, ask every student to check off a box and submit their parents’ most-recent tax forms.

Then stop. Don’t con-

duct interviews. Don’t ask questions about students’ values or ethical dilemmas they have faced. Don’t read letters about “special circumstances.” Don’t sit around for months debating the merits of one person’s summer experience over another’s. Don’t try to decide whether volunteering at a soup kitchen is a better use of a 17-yearold’s time than being on the baseball team.

The students you admit may cheat anyway. But maybe it won’t be as hard to explain to them why that’s “not OK.”

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The Anti-Federalists, opponents of the Constitution, urged that self-government required homogeneity and that diversity could create paralysis and chaos. By contrast, the defenders of the Constitution, above all Alexander Hamilton, thought that diversity could be a creative force and that “the jarring of parties” could be productive, because it would “promote deliberation.”

Political conventions are occasions for group polarization. This is inevitable and by design. But in the best cases, political campaigns get people to escape from their information cocoons — not merely because competing perspectives are available, but because citizens are really listening.

When escape proves difficult, it helps to insist on the importance of respecting technical expertise.

In dealing with patients with diabetes, doctors don’t polarize; they consult the latest medical evidence.

In dealing with clients complaining of breach of contract, lawyers don’t polarize; they consult the law.

True, we can identify issues on the technical frontiers, where doctors

and lawyers may end up in information cocoons of their own. And true, we have to be cautious here, because specialists in some fields — including economics — polarize on some issues, and because even scientists aren’t immune from the problem. But we shouldn’t underestimate the number of cases in which specialists really do come to consensus. In politics and government, a healthy respect for the technical expertise of scientists, lawyers and economists usually helps to anchor discussion — and to avoid a crippled epistemology.

Many of our political convictions are intensely held, especially in an election season. Some of us are undoubtedly right. But an appreciation of how we know what we know should help to engender a healthy dose of humility, making political campaigns far more productive and sensible governance far more likely.

— Cass R. Sunstein, the Felix Frankfurter professor of law at Harvard University, is a Bloomberg View columnist. He is the former administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and the author, most recently, of “On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread.”

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Candidate Ryan rebuts critics, saying: ‘Read the speech’

BY JERRY MARKON AND FELICIA SONMEZ (c) 2012, The Washington Post.

Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan aggressively defended himself Tuesday against allegations that his GOP convention speech last week stretched the truth, saying that opponents and factcheckers accusing him of false or misleading statements should “read the speech.”

Democrats are seizing on Ryan’s remarks, seeking to link them to his earlier errors about his personal marathon time and whether his congressional office sought economic stimulus dollars. On the campaign trail this week, Ryan also misstated the number of bankruptcies filed during President Barack Obama’s tenure.

“While [Mitt] Romney and Ryan may want to revise the past, they can’t make up their own facts,” Obama campaign spokesman Danny Kanner said, responding to Ryan’s criticism of the president in a speech Tuesday in Ohio.

Ryan aides vigorously defended the Wisconsin Republican, accusing Democrats of trying to weave a false narrative about him to distract from Obama’s failures in office. Asked whether the heightened scrutiny of Ryan’s convention speech poses a danger for the Republican ticket, one aide, speaking on the condition of anonymity, responded: “The only danger is lazy reporters.”

With Democrats gathered this week in Charlotte, Ryan has taken on the role of attacking Obama’s record, making more than three dozen appearances since his convention speech. He has not been known to

stretch the truth during his seven terms in Congress, according to colleagues and a review of his record Tuesday, but his recent slip-ups point to the perils of being thrust suddenly into the national spotlight.

During a round of appearances on morning news shows Tuesday, where he had intended to skewer Obama’s record, Ryan instead faced a flurry of questions about his remarks at the convention.

Ryan spokesman Brendan Buck disputed the contention that the candidate had made factual errors in the speech. But he acknowledged that Ryan had made small errors in other appearances. Those included a mistake about the setting in which Ronald Reagan asked his iconic “Are you better off?” question in the 1980 campaign.

“You get out and deliver a message as often as Paul Ryan has, you’re going to confuse a 30-year-old convention with a 30-year-old debate every now and then,” Buck said, referring to Ryan’s statement on Reagan. “Democrats are sorely mistaken if they think this petty name-calling is going to distract Americans from the president’s abysmal economic record.”

Earlier, Ryan told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt that he had run a marathon in less than three hours, then later acknowledged in a statement to Runner’s World

magazine that the claim was false. His time in the 1990 marathon was four hours, one minute and 25 seconds.

Ryan also acknowledged soon after his selection last month as Romney’s running mate that he had urged the Obama administration to award millions of economic stimulus dollars to his district, even though he had voted against the 2009 package. He had denied in 2010 that he ever sought stimulus dollars and repeated that denial last month in an interview with a Cincinnati television station. He later said that his office had mishandled requests from constituents.

Democrats and independent factcheckers have criticized statements in Ryan’s speech to the Republican National Convention, including his comments about the closing of a General Motors plant in Janesville, Wis., his home town. The candidate seemed to suggest that the president was responsible. But the plant was largely closed in December 2008, a month before Obama took office.

Pressed about the remark during an appearance Tuesday on the “Today” show, Ryan said he was not blaming Obama for the plant’s closing but rather for not helping, as he promised, “to lead an effort to retool plants like the Janesville plant to get people back to work.”

“Read the speech,” Ryan said. “What I was saying is the president ought to be held to account for his broken promises.”

On Monday, Ryan came under fire for saying at a Labor Day weekend event in

Greenville, N.C., that “1.4 million businesses filed for bankruptcy” in 2011, far more than during President Jimmy Carter’s last year in office, when the nation was in another economic slump.

Campaign officials soon acknowledged that his numbers included both business and non-business bankruptcies, and that the number of business bankruptcies in 2011 was actually 47,806, compared with 43,694 under Carter in 1980. Ryan corrected the error Tuesday.

“He obviously misspoke, but it’s still an apples-to-apples comparison,” Buck said.

“The point remains: Bankruptcies are up dramatically under President Obama compared to the Carter years.”

And campaign aides defended Ryan again Tuesday when he said in his Ohio speech that Reagan had asked in his convention address in 1980 if Americans were better off after four years under Carter. Reagan asked the question during a debate with Carter.

Republicans are invoking Reagan’s question to argue that Americans are not better off under Obama, and two giant “Are You Better Off?” signs decorated a Ryan rally later Tuesday in Iowa.

Audrey Roberts, a 65-year-old retiree and Romney-Ryan supporter from Avon Lake, Ohio, said she wasn’t concerned about any Ryan gaffes.

“Sometimes people might color their stories a little bit, but I don’t think it’s an intentional misstatement,” said Roberts, who attended Ryan’s speech Tuesday near Cleveland. “I might’ve said I made six dozen cookies when in reality, it was only five dozen.”

Fact checker: Demos’ speeches gloss up Obama’s economic record

BY GLENN KESSLER (c) 2011, The Washington Post.

The Democrats launched their convention Tuesday with a series of speeches that put the best possible gloss on President Barack Obama’s economic record and took various shots at GOP nominee Mitt Romney.

First lady Michelle Obama, who like Ann Romney gave a mostly personal testimonial about her husband, did not give us much material to fact-check. But here’s a roundup of other notable claims.

--“Four years ago, America stood on the brink of a depression. Despite incred-

ible odds and united Republican opposition, our president took action. And now we’ve seen 4.5 million new jobs.” _ San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, in the keynote address Castro takes a debatable talking point from the Obama campaign - that 4.5 million private-sector jobs have been created since February 2010 (a year after the president’s stimulus bill was passed into law) - and makes it ridiculous.

First, this statistic includes only private-sector jobs, which means the decline in government jobs is simply excluded. Total jobs created in the United States from February 2010

is 4 million - and it is actually still negative if you start counting from the beginning of Obama’s presidency.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, job creation in Obama’s entire presidency is minus 300,000 or plus 160,000, depending on whether you date his presidency from January or February.

Second, February 2010 is a cherry-picked month that puts Obama’s job-creation record in the best possible light. The end of the recession, June 2009, would be a more logical date from which to start counting jobs created; that would reduce the total to 3.4 million (for private-sector jobs) or 2.7 million (for all jobs).

Finally, the U.S. population keeps growing, meaning the economy has to keep creating more than 100,000 jobs each month just to keep pace. By that measure, Obama is in a hole no matter when you start counting.

--“The Romney-Ryan budget doesn’t just cut public education, cut Medicare, cut transportation and cut job training. . . . It’s a choice between a nation that slashes funding for our schools and guts Pell grants.” _ Castro Castro here appears to be referring to the House GOP budget blueprint written by Paul Ryan. That document retains virtually the same reductions in Medicare spending - from anticipated levels - as the Obama budget. (Such details have not stopped the Republicans from referring to “cuts,” either.)

The Republican budget also seeks to reduce government spending in the coming decades. The Obama campaign has made a variety of assumptions not detailed in the plan - to argue that key parts of the domestic spending budget would be cut 95 percent by the middle of the century.

As we have noted before, Obama’s long-term budget does not show such cuts, but it does show the national debt soaring to more than 140 percent of the gross domestic product. Of course, a lot of things could happen in the next 40 years, which is why such claims can be easily discounted.

The administration did the similar exercise for Pell grants, claiming 10 million students would face a cut of more than $1,000, by assuming across-the-board cuts in the next year that have not actually been specified. The Ryan plan would prevent a scheduled rise in the maximum Pell grant from $5,550 to $5,635 - and curtail eligibility for the program. Ryan argues that it is necessary to focus the program on the most needy students because the current growth path is financially unsustainable.

--“Instead of the Medicare guarantee, Republicans would give seniors a voucher

that limits what’s covered, costing seniors as much as $6,400 If you have a take more a year.”

Seethe more, click on on election _ utahstatesman.com rhetoric, write a Health and letter to the Human Services editor, send to : Secretary Kathleen Sebelius statesman@usu.edu The Democrats love to use the donates about 14 percent of phrase “voucher” his income to charity. for a concept that is But most of Romney’s actually known as “premium support.” taxes are federal income taxes. He pays relatively litThe government tle in payroll taxes because would still continue the 6.2 percent Social to pay much of the Security tax maxes out once premiums for plans you earn a certain amount that meet govern- $110,100 in 2012. Romney ment muster. in effect earns that much by Moreover, note that Jan. 3.

Sebelius says the Ryan plan People often confuse marcould cost “as much as” ginal tax rates with effective $6,400 more a year. Always tax rates.

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“In Massachusetts, we In the updated Ryan know Mitt Romney. By plan, Medicare spending the time he left office, would be permitted to Massachusetts was 47th in grow slightly faster than the nation in job creation.” the nation’s economy - in _ Massachusetts Gov. fact, at the same growth Deval Patrick rate as Obama’s budget for This is a common Obama Medicare. campaign talking point, but Beneficiaries might still Patrick’s phrasing (“by the face higher costs, dependtime he left office”) makes ing on how well the system it especially inaccurate. The worked. But that might 47th ranking is the average also be the case if nothing for Romney’s entire term, more is done to improve when in fact Massachusetts Medicare’s finances. started out at 50th place --and ended up at 28th by the “We learned that he end of Romney term.

[Romney] pays a lower tax We’ve previously looked rate than middle-class famiat a list of such claims by lies.” the Obama campaign and _ Senate Majority Leader found many equally susHarry Reid, D-Nev. Romney certainly made a pect. Romney’s economic record is certainly mixed, lot of money in 2010 - $21.7 but a governor - especially million, according to his a one-term governor - is tax return - and yet his tax rate was about 13.9 percent. very much at the mercy of broader economic trends.

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Utah State head coach Gary Andersen’s football team will face a tough challenge Friday as the Utes trot onto Merlin Olsen Field in Romney Stadium.

But it’s not enough to stop his confidence in the final score.

“Utah is obviously a talented football team,” Andersen said. “They are consistent, they have a consistent winning tradition over the years.”

Andersen, who played for two years and served as an assistant coach for 11 years at Utah before accepting the head coaching job at USU, should know that better than anyone, but he isn’t the only one on staff who is familiar with Utah football.

Associate head coach Bill Busch coached defensive backs at Utah for three years and assistant head coach Mike Sanford was offensive coordinator during 2004 when the Utes beat Pittsburgh in the Fiesta Bowl.

Andersen said he is looking forward to facing his alma mater.

“That is always a tremendous challenge when you play Utah, to deal with that defense, and year in and year out, it has been kind of the mainstay, if you will, of that program,” Andersen said.

“Utah hasn’t changed a lot, but we have changed a few things here and there, and they have tweaked their system to what is best for their personnel.”

Utah’s defensive line in particular will give the Aggie offense problems. D-tackle Star Lotulelei wreaked havoc on Northern Colorado quarterback Seth Lobato, who passed for 74 yards and was

sacked twice last week.

“Everyone talks about Star,” Andersen said. “He is a tremendous football player, he is tough, he is physical, and he is a first round draft pick without question. I think a lot of people forget about the rest of those kids that are on that defense.

(Lotulelei) is surrounded by some very talented young men that play within a good scheme and are well coached.”

Sophomore quarterback Chuckie Keeton, who will likely be going solo at quarterback after senior Adam Kennedy’s injury last week, said many Utah players are physical but said he hopes he will be able to attack the secondary like he did against Southern Utah.

“We just have to play our football,” Keeton said. “We have to be physical up front and we have to play smart throughout the entire game.”

Despite Utah’s proficient defense, Andersen said the Utah offensive line is his biggest concern going into the game.

“Their offensive line is gigantic,” Andersen said. “A lot of times if you cannot hold up in those situations in the trenches, it forces you to become dramatic in the back end.”

The Utah O-line paved the way for the Utes to rush for nearly 200 yards in the 41-0 trouncing of Northern Colorado at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Andersen said Utah is talented at the running back position.

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to practice, I want to play, I want to make sure I’m involved as much as I can be.’”

DuBose works with head track and field coach Gregg Gensel to help Orr manage both sports.

“Both of my coaches really cooperate well and they talk to each other all the time,” Orr said. “If I need to go to track this day and go to volleyball the next, they let me do what I need to do.”

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Now in her sophomore year, Orr is an outside hitter for the women’s volleyball team and a high jumper for the track and field team. The Thatcher, Ariz. native has earned the admiration of her peers and coaches for her ability to swing both sports.

“You never would know,” said Grayson DuBose, head women’s volleyball coach.

“My thing was, ‘Hey, if you feel like you’re tired we can modify practice a little bit and do that kind of stuff,’ but she would never do that.

She’s always ‘Hey, I want

If you’re anything like me, the Utah State Aggies’ beat down of Southern Utah last Thursday left you nothing short of giddy.

game football fans show up to the stadium to see. The Aggies had power on defense, leaving the opposing running game essentially obsolete and quieted what was planning on being a promising passing game.

On offense, it wasn’t enough that the running game showed the potential to leave the numbers that the duo of Robert Turbin and Michael Smith left behind in the dust —

there is also a passing game. And oh, what a passing game.

Have you ever played “NCAA Football 12” on Xbox and scored a series of touchdowns throwing to the B receiver on the “Four Verts” play?

Quarterback Chuckie Keeton made two throws in the first quarter, one to Chuck Jacobs and the other a frozen rope to Matt Austin, that brought those virtual throws into life.

For a fan base com-

ing off a summer full of huge expectations for a team well on the rise, this was a trip to paradise. Truly a great day to be an Aggie fan.

Of course, many cases in USU athletics have proven that, at times, being an Aggie fan in and of itself can be a part of the success. This year athletics and the HURD have been hard at work in trying to take an already well-respected fan base to the next level. And believe me, they have.

Whether they know it or not, their new installments to an already stacked repertoire are just what this team needs.

If you sat in the back of the bleachers, you may not have noticed Aggie fans convening together just after the third quarter, linking arms and jumping up and down for a new cheer. Many onlookers did not expect such a moment and thus the

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“The seasons don’t coincide,” he said. “It’s volleyball in the fall and track in the winter and spring, and that works out really well. When she has to do volleyball stuff we just rearrange her schedule so she can participate.”

Orr was recruited from Thatcher High School, where she competed in both volleyball and track for all four years. As a senior she helped her team finish with a 24-1 record in volleyball and cleared 5 feet, 10 inches in the high jump. She was recruited by both DuBose and Gensel to play for the USU teams but she is here to play on a volleyball scholarship, according to Gensel.

“I was playing club volleyball and one of my coaches knew Grayson,” Orr said. “He watched some of my games, then I came up for a visit to USU and I loved it. I liked the coaches and all of the girls on the team. Logan is very pretty and has a nice campus so I decided to come up here.”

In addition to juggling volleyball and track, Orr excels off the field in her schoolwork. In April she was recognized along with SOPHOMORE OUTSIDE HITTER RACHEL ORR acknowledges the crowd 196 other USU student before a match in the Spectrum earlier this season. Orr, also a high jumper on the track athletes at the Whitesides and field team, maintains a 3.2 grade point average — is good enough to be an Academic Scholar-Athlete Luncheon All-WAC student-athlete. In addition, she also juggles a social life at Utah State University. for posting a 3.2 grade CURTIS RIPPLINGER photo point average, and is also

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In high school she was a member of the National Honor Society and on the school honor roll.

“She’s really got a nice balance,” DuBose said.

“She understands she’s here to be a student first and an athlete second.”

Several of Orr’s teammates have also taken notice of Rachel’s dedication to schoolwork.

“She’s had a really full schedule with hard classes,” said fellow high-jumper Mariah Thompson. “She takes stuff like anatomy and physiology and I can’t imagine how she could be gone pretty much every weekend in the school year and still be succeeding in school. She must be a superhero. She must not have to sleep like the rest of us.”

“For me, one sport is hard enough,” said Josselyn White, senior outside hitter on the volleyball team. “I can’t imagine doing two.

I know Rachel gets good grades and that is a testament to her work ethic, being able to maintain good academics and also being able to compete well in track and volleyball.”

Outside of sports and school, Orr is able to have a social life between her obligations. She hangs out with her roommates, who are all on the volleyball team, but said sometimes track events can get in the way.

“When I was gone for track, they were all home and they would go out and

do stuff,” she said. “I would miss some things but it really wasn’t that big of a deal. I hang out with others too but I mostly hang out with track and volleyball players.”

Orr said she does get asked on dates, but has to decline some of them.

“I do get asked on a few dates but I have to tell them ‘No I can’t go, I have a track meet,’ or whatever” she said. “It’s not too bad though.”

For the future, Orr said her goals involve graduating, winning the WAC, playing in the postseason for volleyball and making it to regionals and nationals for track. She said she hasn’t really thought about possibly continuing volleyball or track after college.

“It would be cool, of course,” she said. “Who wouldn’t want to go pro?”

Whether or not she decides to compete at the next level, Orr’s teammates look to her as a source of inspiration.

“From the first time I met Rachel she’s always had a super good attitude,” said Thompson. “She never complains about anything and if I were in her position, I feel like I would be complaining a lot. She’s always happy and always tries her best wherever she is, and it rubs off on people.”

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Let’s be honest. Just because the Aggies beat up on Southern Utah means absolutely nothing in terms of how well they will play against the team from down south.

Aggie loss comes down to a missed field goal, 20-17.

There are two reasons Utah is going to win the battle of the brothers for the seven billionth time in Romney Stadium.

First, the Utes have one of the best defensive lines in the country and will win the turnover battle. Utah State’s offensive line performed well against SUU last week, but Tyler Larsen and the big hefties lined up on his left and right will soon learn how much better a Pac-12 team plays than an FCS squad.

This won’t only affect the fatigue levels of USU’s O-line, it’ll make it so Kerwynn Williams and Joe Hill won’t be able to bust out hundreds of rushing yards like they did last week.

Secondly, when the USU offense stalls there will be no kicker on the roster to hit 100 percent of his attempts. It’s a little ridiculous to have a kickoff specialist, an extra-point specialist, a long-field-goal specialist and a short-field-goal specialist. If Gary Andersen had faith in one of the kickers, he would have said kicker assigned to do everything but punt — and be the backup punter.

Don’t overlook penalties. Jumanne Robertson and Nevin Lawson will both be targeted and flagged for playing defense.

I fully expect the HURD to tear me apart via Twitter for this, but someone had to play Whittingham’s advocate.

This is our year, Aggies win 27-23 The Aggies are hungry — hungry for that big win that has eluded them.

Count on them exploiting Utah’s weaknesses and winning this game in the trenches. Here’s how they’re going to do it: The Utes offensive line is their Achilles’ heel. The USU defense has put an emphasis on creating turnovers to put the ball in the capable hands of Chuckie Keeton. If the front three can get into Utah’s backfield, Jordan Wynn will have the same kind of game SUU’s Brad Sorensen did last week — and Sorensen is an NFL prospect while Wynn is a second-year QB. While the defense will be looking to keep Utah out of sync, we saw last week just how quickly Keeton and the offense can get on the scoreboard. Matt Austin and the USU receivers should be able to outmaneuver a Utah defense that is without safety Brian Blechen to allow Keeton to move the ball downfield and put points on the board with a balanced offensive attack.

Granted, SUU is no Utah, but 265 rushing yards and 304 passing yards is pretty balanced. Kerwynn Williams and Joe Hill each had carries for more than 20 yards, while Austin and Jacobs each had receptions of 35 yards or more.

Yep, the Aggies have the whole package this year.

But just for good measure, let’s add in that the Aggies are playing at home, where Coach Anderson is 4-0 against in-state opponents.

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Revamped, Retooled and Refocused

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The Utah State men’s soccer club enters the 2012 competitive season with a new team but high hopes to improve upon last year’s semi-final regional finish.

“Win,” said co-captain Jordan Butterfield of the team’s goal for the year.

“Win all of our games and take the Region tournament.”

Few returners are back from the team that lost two games last year, but after finishing tryouts last Thursday, Butterfield says the team is feeling a surge of confidence for the year.

“We’re looking surprisingly strong this year,” he said. “We lost a lot of guys from the year before, but we’ve picked up some guys that are good players, ex-Division I players.”

Co-captain Nate Jarman was also impressed with the top-tier influx of talent.

“We have a diverse, mixed team,” he said.

“We have kids from the Olympic Development program and even the Dominican Republic. If we can come together, we should have a good sea-

THE UTAH STATE MEN’S SOCCER TEAM finalized the roster last week before losing to Weber State in a 7-0 shellacking Saturday. Members of the team are confident as they look forward to the rest of the season and the possibilities of playing in the NIRSA Regional and National Championships later this year. CURTIS RIPPLINGER photo

son.”

Jarman said enough new, deep talent tried out for former Olympic Development players to be cut from the team.

Butterfield was excited with the amount of technical talent the team

picked up, as well as with their new head coach, who has a coaching license one step below international level.

“We’re excited to have Sherri Dever come in as our new coach,” he said.

“She has her B-License in

coaching, which is kind of a big deal.”

“Having someone with her experience will help a lot,” Jarman said.

Dever brings a wealth of club and Olympic Development coaching to the team, and is excited to

continue the Aggie tradition.

“I am confident in my knowledge and experience of the game and feel that I can help the members of the team have a good experience,” she said.

Butterfield and Jarman,

along with returning starter Casey Allen, anchor a strong midfield and defense for the Aggies, while forward Kevin Young is expected to headline the offensive attack.

“The defense is going to be amazing, but the offense is going to struggle,” Jarman said. “We’re not as big as last year up front.”

Jarman said the team plans on playing a technical, possession-based passing approach, similar to the styles of recent world championship teams from Spain.

“All the kids are now possession players,” he said. “We’ll be more possession based than last year.”

Jarman said the focus for the team, which is now entering practice, will be to mesh together and find a specific team identity and plan for each side of the ball.

The club hosted tryouts this past week and are funded by donations and out of their own pockets.

Fields are provided by the university but all balls, jerseys, cleats and other equipment must be per-

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VIEW: Football chant is perfect oFrom page 13 overall performance was not as intoxicating as planned, but the words of the cheer alone proved to me that this will change soon.

The words in itself are overall basic and unified, but center around the phrase “Stand strong, stand together.”

Without knowing it, Aggies fans were exclaiming a message – a decree, even – to players, opposing fans and all in earshot that no matter what you call them, they are one. It themed perfectly the exact value that states why our boys are on to success and won’t be changing direction anytime soon.

Talent is one thing, momentum is another, but this team, plagued last year with woes in the exact quarter the fans were leading their players into, were who they were because they stand strong and stand

together.

They stood together in moments when they made successful plays that were only strategies in years passed, when teammates stood along the sideline talking and laughing because a football team should be more like a family than anything else, when Keeton hops in front of quarterback Adam Kennedy, who is walking off the field after hurting his shoulder, doing anything to let his ailing teammate know that he has his back.

That being said, Friday’s battle with Utah will be no easy case. The Utes boast a threatening defense and a presence that has labeled them a sleeper in a highly competitive Pac-12 conference.

It has been a long time since these teams were so evenly matched, which is why it matters so much that the Aggies find success.

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This is the prime time for USU to gain the fodder to attain national attention at every level and begin the documented descent to a marauding force to be reckoned with.

The best part is, they can do it – if they do their jobs collectively, find lasting momentum early, and as a horde of finger-pointing, giantf lag-waving, noise spreading, cow-milking, sheep-herding, blueclad fans have already voiced, if they stand strong and stand together.

– Steve Schwartzman is a senior studying communication studies.

He has had just about every job in sports writing, including blogs, analysis, statistics and fantasy football tips, but he especially loves making bold picks. Got any comments? Let him know: steve.schwartzman@aggiemail.usu.edu.

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UTAH: Challenge oFrom page 13 119 yards and a touchdown on 24 carries.

As a junior in the Pac-12 last season, the Torrance, Calif. native scored 15 touchdowns and helped the Utes to an 8-5 record and a Hyundai Sun Bowl victory over Georgia Tech.

Junior linebacker Zach Vigil said White is “a key player that we have to stop if (Utah State is) going to win the game.”

“He is tough and physical, a slash runner,” Vigil said. “He is a smaller type back, but he is strong... He is going to put his head down and run through you if he has to.”

White isn’t the only challenge for Vigil and the USU defense. Utah quarterback Jordan Wynn completed 17 of 19 passes for 200 yards and a pair of touchdowns last week. The quarterback sat out much of last season after suffering a surgery-requiring shoulder injury in the Oct. 1 game against Washington, but will be fully healthy for the Utah State game.

“Jordan Wynn is a good quarterback,” Vigil said. “The scheme for them is to set him up for success. He is going to make good throws.

He’s a smart quarterback.”

The game will be an emotional frenzy for fans and players alike and will likely be the last time in the foreseeable future the two team meet in Logan. Games are scheduled to be played in Salt Lake City in 2013 and 2015, but Utah bought out the 2014 game for $500,000 and no future matchups have been scheduled.

Andersen said he hopes the two schools can reach an agreement to continue the rivalry.

“It is an important game for us and we want to play the in-state games,” he said.

“Obviously both teams are going to be excited. It is the second game of the year and it’s an in-state rivalry.”

– tavin.stucki@aggiemail.usu.edu Twitter: @Stuckiaggies

AGGIE RUNNING BACK JOE HILL attempts to break a tackle by a Southern Utah defender in the 34-3 victory last Thursday. Hill and the rest of the Aggies will have a much steeper challenge in the game against Utah on Friday, which will be televised nationally on ESPN 2. CURTIS RIPPLINGER photo

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sonally provided.

The team will play other clubs from around the state, such as Weber State, Utah and Westminster throughout the fall until the National IntramuralRecreational Sports Association Region VI Tournament in November. The champions of the region tournament move on to NIRSA National Campus Championship Series National Soccer Championships, where Butterfield hopes the team will be this fall.

“We should win every game unless it’s our fault,” he said. “We should domi-

nate. We have the skill and players to do it.”

The Aggies opened last Saturday against Weber State and now enter practices until a Sept. 21 trip to Provo, Utah to play BYU. USU then returns home for a double header against Westminster and then Utah the next day.

Home games are played at Legacy Fields unless otherwise noted.

– m.hop@aggiemail.usu.edu Twitter:@legendarymhops

Meet the Challenge USU (1-0) VS. UTAH (1-0) Gary Andersen (4th year) Kyle Whittingham (9th year) Sept. 7, Romney Stadium, 6 p.m.

Utah playmakers

Utah playmakers

RB Joe Hill QB Chuckie Keeton WR Matt Austin WR Chuck Jacobs

3 TD 2 TD 1 TD 1 TD

QB Jordan Wynn WR Jake Murphy RB Travis Wilson RB John White

2 TD 2 TD 2 TD 1 TD